Hearing the Screams

Hearing the Screams

“Hey, I heard you guys fighting so I wanted to come see if you were okay…” I am still baffled by the fact that I was the person being checked on in that scenario. My friend was worried for my safety since the ferocious yelling and screaming between my toxic boyfriend...
Questions That Change Everything

Questions That Change Everything

Most people spend their days reacting: To emails. To meetings. To other people’s demands. It’s easy to drift like this for weeks, months—even years—without ever stopping to ask what you really want. But there are two questions that cut through the noise. Questions...
Avoiding Whack A Mole

Avoiding Whack A Mole

Ok people, it’s done. Summer’s over. Labor Day is so last weekend. The vacation’s behind you. No more lazy lunches. No more casual Fridays. It’s time to put away the Dockers… and the swimmies. It’s time to get back to it. Fall is here. Time to get busy; time to...
Enoughness

Enoughness

When is enough? And where? We’d been trapped for 4 days. On a tiny snow-covered ledge. At nearly 21,000’. Blowing, drifting snow. Hurricane-force winds. Temps well below zero. We were out of food and fuel. Morale was low. Actually morale was gone. At dawn on the 5th...
Purpose Driven

Purpose Driven

We shall never cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time. — T.S. Eliot I spent years; decades even. I conferred with priests and ministers. I consulted with counselors and...